Specializes in: 19th Century Russian literature as history and culture; Dostoevsky; history of Russian medicine in the 19th century; Russian theater, notably Chekhov, Bulgakov and the history of the Moscow Art Theater.

Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.

Focuses on 20th-21st-century French and francophone literature and culture; Haitian literature and culture; French and Francophone Cinema; Postcolonial identities; Immigration; Violence in France and the francophone world.